Cemetery Regulations

[unprofessional FD]

Some of you will have seen the article in last Friday's (17 August 2012) Oxford Mail pertaining to the unlawful rule imposed by Woodstock Town Council that an 'approved professional firm' (implicitly a funeral director) must be used when interring ashes (aka cremated remains). After significant effort by one former resident of Woodstock, and having involving the Press, WTC has decided to abandon its rule.
Alas Deddington has the same rule. Deddington appears to be the only other parish insisting that the bereaved employ an undertaker for a simple interment possibly in the country, and not Bicester Town Council, as the Oxford Mail wrongly stated.

Though not a resident of Deddington, I urge you all to ensure that the Parish Council makes the necessary changes to their Cemetery Rules and Regulations with due haste.
It may be of interest to establish whether Deddington got this wrong idea from Woodstock, or vice versa.

Should the Parish Council prefer I am sure the same public participant will be more than willing to provide them with the same oration as was given to Woodstock last Tuesday. The Parish Clerk of Deddington knows how to contact him.


unprofessional FD

[Deddington News Letters]

I'd like to print your Forum entry on cemetery regulations in the September issue of DN (being prepared now), but I can't publish anything written anonymously. If you are happy to have the letter printed, please contact me offline (editor@deddingtonnews.co.uk). We don't need to publish your name but the editors need to know who you are. Thanks.